Global Conference on Economic Geography 2018

European Spaces of Financialization

Call for Papers

Fifth FINGEO Global Seminar, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brüssel, Belgien, 28. und 29. Mai 2018. Attendence of the seminar is open to all after registration, but there is a selection procedure for paper presenters. Deadline: 15. Januar 2018.

The Great Transition: Setting the Stage for a Post-Capitalist Society

Money, Finance, and Capital

Call for Papers

The Business History Conference Doctoral Colloquium in Business History, Baltimore (Maryland, USA), 4. bis 5. April 2018. Deadline: 15. November 2017.
This workshop for early stage doctoral candidates will be held in conjunction with the BHC annual meeting. All participants receive a stipend that partially defrays travel costs.

Eight people now own as much wealth as the 3.6 billion people who constitute the poorer 50% of humanity. How did we get here? Who made this happen? These are among the main empirical questions motivating Brooke Harrington’s research on offshore finance and wealth management. In her lecture, she will discuss how her research contributes to the sociology of stratification, law and the professions. She will argue that wealth should be central in the study of inequality. Second, she will show how offshore finance and the wealth management profession are provoking a reconfiguration of state power relative to global economic elites; one consequence of this is an increasing lawlessness among the ultra-rich, of which tax avoidance is just one symptom. In addition, Harrington will discuss her method of immersion ethnography — training for two years to be a wealth manager, in order to gather data from 65 practitioners in 18 tax havens — and how this approach reveals aspects of inequality obscured by structural and statistical approaches.

The lecture is based on Harrington’s recent book, Capital without Borders: Wealth Managers and the One Percent (2016, Harvard University Press).

Money Talks: Explaining How Money Really Works

Money Talks explores five key questions: How do social relationships, emotions, and morals shape how people account for and use their money? How do corporations infuse social meaning into their financing and investment practices? What are the historical, political, and social foundations of currencies? When does money become contested, and are there things money shouldn’t buy? What is the impact of the new twenty-first-century currencies on our social relations?

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Markets and Classifications. Categorizations and Valuations as Social Processes Structuring Markets

Instability in Market Societies

Call for Visiting Fellow Research Stays in Paris

Max Planck Sciences Po Center,
Deadline: 30. April 2017.

The Max Planck Sciences Po Center on Coping with Instability in Market Societies (MaxPo) is welcoming applications from senior academics for 2–4-month research stays at Sciences Po in the heart of Paris.

Special Issue of Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, on Price

Call for Papers

This special issue invites contributions on the theme of price. It seeks contributions which move away from the narrow concerns of an economics focused on price as information and from a sociology focused on the meaning of price to deliver state-of-the-art engagements with the problem and question of price. [Weiterlesen]
Deadline: 30. September 2017.